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<p>ICE is purchasing a fleet of Roshel Senator armored vehicles from an Ontario firm, which has set off intense backlash north of the border.</p>

NEWS

‘Deeply troubling’: Canadian legislators call for halt to ICE armored vehicle sale after report by The Independent

<p>‘My ex-husband had said, ‘You’ve faked your robbery for a TV show,’’ Kim said</p>

Kim Kardashian says Kanye West accused her of faking Paris robbery

<p>Paramount chief David Ellison has desperately tried to purchase Warner Bros. Discovery to add to his burgeoning media empire.</p>

NEWS

Paramount fumes that Warner Bros. Discovery sale process is ‘unfair’ as Netflix jumps into the lead

<p>Residents of Arlington, Texas, have reacted with outrage after it was announced that their city football field will be renamed for the 2026 FIFA World Cup – to ‘Dallas Stadium’</p>

SPORT

Arlington residents outraged as Cowboys’ stadium rebrands to ‘Dallas Stadium’ for World Cup

<p>Admiral Frank ‘Mitch’ Bradley, a respected Navy SEAL officer who leads US Special Operations Command, spent Thursday on Capitol Hill to answer questions about the strikes on suspected drug boats</p>

POLITICS

Democrat lawmaker says ‘double tap’ boat strike video shows survivors in ‘clear distress,’ after admiral briefing

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump, walking back to the Oval Office of the White House after participating in a pardoning ceremony for the National Thanksgiving Turkey, Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025, in Washington

Livepolitics

Trump and Melania to usher in holiday season with lighting of National Christmas tree

<p>White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt (right) revealed her 2025 Spotify Wrapped, which included her boss's nemesis Taylor Swift as one of her top listened to artists</p>

POLITICS

Trump might not be a Taylor Swift fan but the pop star was one of Karoline Leavitt’s most listened to Spotify artists

<p>Masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and federal officers detain a migrant as he walks out from a hearing during targeted detainment at a U.S. immigration court in Manhattan, in New York City, U.S., October 27, 2025. Immigration arrests have spiked under President Donald Trump’s administration, but are still well below the administration’s stated goal of 3,000 arrests per day</p>

politics

ICE has seen a dramatic jump in arrests since Stephen Miller’s decree – but still well below his stated goal

<p>Seattle Police are offering up to $1,000 for tips leading to the arrest of a man who attacked an 88-year-old woman in her own backyard.</p>

CRIME

88-year-old woman attacked in her own backyard by suspect who bit off her finger during the robbery

<p>Tammi Hamby recruited three friends to help fake kidnap her own daughter to teach her a lesson after she learned she was talking to a Luke Bryan impersonator online, cops say</p>

CRIME

Mom stages disabled daughter’s fake kidnapping to teach a lesson after she was groomed online by Luke Bryan impersonator: cops

<p>An image of the wild dog family taken by a camera trap earlier this year</p>

POLITICS

Endangered wild dog pups die in Zimbabwe as Trump’s aid cuts leave them unprotected

<p>The FBI has arrested a male suspect over the placing of pipe bombs in Washington D.C. on the eve of the January 6 riots in 2021</p>

Crime

Suspect accused of leaving pipe bombs in DC before January 6 riots hit with federal felony charges

<p>Donald Trump has pardoned at least 11 elected officials and several wealthy fraudsters in a streak that legal experts and former pardon attorneys warn is normalizing public corruption and rewriting what is acceptable criminal behavior</p>

ANALYSISPOLITICS

How Donald Trump’s pardon wave is ‘normalizing corruption’

<p>Zelensky with Trump and Macron</p>

Liveukraine

Macron warned that Trump could ‘betray Ukraine’ in leaked call

<p>Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni have been locked in a bitter legal battle over sexual harassment allegations and accusations that he fostered a ‘hostile environment’ on set of ‘It Ends with Us’</p>

Blake Lively accuses Justin Baldoni of trying to ‘avoid accountability’ as he seeks to dismiss It Ends with Us lawsuit

<p>Amazon is mulling the possibility of ending its relationship with the US Postal Service and looking at plans to create its own shipping network, according to a new report.</p>

NEWS

Amazon could ditch USPS and create its own shipping network in massive industry shakeup: report

<p>Richard Gere has made a rare comment on being banned from the Oscars for 20 years </p>

Richard Gere makes rare comment on 20-year Oscars ban over controversial Tibet comments

NEWS

Sam Altman looking to buy rocket company so he can compete with Elon Musk’s SpaceX

<p>Phillip Hoover, 69, died after falling through the ice of a pond while trying to save his beloved dog </p>

NEWS

Elderly dog owner dies after falling through ice on pond trying to save his beloved pup

<p>Robert Downey Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow have co-starred as love interests in several MCU films, including 'Ironman' </p>

Robert Downey Jr roasts Gwyneth Paltrow over Marvel movie confusion

<p>Taylor Frankie Paul and Dakota Mortensen went head-to-head during the 'Secret Lives of Mormon Wives' reunion</p>

‘Sickening, dishonest, liar:’ Mormon Wives’ Taylor Frankie Paul’s parents deliver gut punch to her ex Dakota during reunion

<p>Robert O’Neill, the former U.S. Navy SEAL who was part of the elite military unit responsible for assassinating Osama Bin Laden, boasted that he has ‘killed more people than Jeffrey Dahmer.’ </p>

politics

‘I’ve killed more people than Jeffrey Dahmer,’ boasts Osama bin Laden Navy SEAL after Piers Morgan guest blasts Hegseth

<p>Paul Dano's (left) performance in 'There Will Be Blood' was recently slammed by Quentin Tarantino (right) as 'weak'</p>

The Batman writer defends Paul Dano against ruthless Quentin Tarantino criticism

Trump Reshapes The World

<p>Former executive Tim Leiweke, the latest person to benefit from a pardon from President Donald Trump</p>

politics

Trump pardons entertainment exec charged by his own Justice Department

<p>Katrina Campins says that women get 'hotter' when they join the Republican Party</p>

politics

Fox News host claims women get ‘hotter’ if they join the Republican party

<p>A woman who shares a child with White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s brother has been arrested by ICE agents and is in the process of being deported</p>

POLITICS

Video shows the moment ICE agents swarm the mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew

<p>Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth attends a cabinet meeting at the White House on Tuesday December 2, 2025</p>

POLITICS

New York Times sues Pentagon and Hegseth over new press restrictions

<p>Kenya is one of the nations hit hard by aid cuts</p>

politics

Foreign aid cuts by Trump and European countries will see extra 200,000 children under five die this year, damning Gates report warns

<p>The shock departure of Admiral Alvin Holsey, head of U.S. Southern Command, which oversees military operations in the Caribbean, was announced by Hegseth on Oct.16</p>

POLITICS

Hegseth forced out US Navy admiral who had legal concerns over Trump’s drug boat strikes: report

<p>Harry referenced ‘The Late Show’ network CBS’s settlement with Donald Trump </p>

Politics

Prince Harry mocks Trump during surprise Stephen Colbert appearance

Bulletin

<p>This new visa guidance marks an exception to the president's broader immigration restrictions</p>

Trump orders embassies to prioritize visa applications for sports fans

<p>Tammi Hamby reportedly recruited three friends to help carry out the staged kidnapping</p>

Arkansas mom arrested for staging kidnapping of her disabled daughter

<p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting at the White House, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025, in Washington</p>

Hegseth ‘pushed top Navy boss who questioned boat strikes to resign’

<p>China has unveiled a new hypersonic missile, the YKJ-1000</p>

China unveils new extremely cheap ‘cement-coated’ missile

More News

<p>Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire pedophile who died in jail in August 2019, continues to haunt American public life</p>

EPSTEIN FALLOUT

Epstein donated at least $150,000 to Harvard social group after his 2008 conviction, records show

<p>Bari Weiss is scheduled to make her first on-air appearance for CBS News, moderating a town hall featuring Erika Kirk.</p>

POLITICS

CBS News staffers rip ‘shallow’ Bari Weiss for moderating ‘absurd’ network town hall with Erika Kirk

<p>Police outside the property in San Diego, California, where human remains belonging to 'multiple persons' were discovered earlier this week</p>

Crime

Multiple human remains found at former home of 74 year-old suspect in separate murder case

<p>Chris Fleming comedy show attendees at Atlanta’s Buckhead Theatre were stranded for 90 minutes after Empire Parking Services booted their cars in a nearby lot, despite having prepaid for Ticketmaster parking</p>

NEWS

Concertgoers outraged to come back and find their cars booted despite prepaying for parking through Ticketmaster

Putin’s ‘secret daughter’ confronted by Ukrainian whose brother was killed by Russia

<p>Abby Lee Miller poses with Neil Patrick Harris after his Broadway show, 'Art'</p>

Neil Patrick Harris calls out Abby Lee Miller for using heavy Instagram filter on his face: ‘What did you do?’

<p>Gillian Anderson in ‘The Abandons’</p>

Review

There is no excuse for Netflix western The Abandons to be this bad

<p>The USGS is trying to learn what went wrong and why the automatic earthquake detection system sent out the alert</p>

NEWS

5.9 magnitude earthquake near Lake Tahoe was ‘bogus event,’ USGS says

<p>Stranger Things table read</p>

Stranger Things cast react to huge Season 5 plot twist at table read

<p>Patricia Parker allegedly began distributing the pills after her real estate business was disrupted during the Covid pandemic</p>

Crime

A 74 year-old woman distributed 150,000 doses of fentanyl in the mail in ‘side hustle’ to pay for her meds

<p>'The View' co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin has returned to the show after missing three days due to a stomach virus</p>

‘No Tylenol for you’: The View’s Joy Behar jokes with pregnant Alyssa Farah Griffin after illness

<p>Prince George's County Police Department Chief George Nader during Wednesday's press conference</p>

Crime

One dead and another injured after gunman opens fire in food court at MGM casino hotel

<p>Sabrina Carpenter on the cover of her seventh album, ‘Man’s Best Friend</p>

Sabrina Carpenter explains the meaning behind her controversial album cover for ‘Man’s Best Friend’

<p>The double star Albireo in Cygnus captured on 26 December 2019. The 2.5-minute exposures recorded Starlink satellites moving across the field</p>

Space astronomy is under threat from ‘megaconstellations’ of satellites, scientists warn

<p>Billy Ray wished Miley and Maxx Morando congratulations on their engagement</p>

Billy Ray Cyrus reacts to daughter Miley’s engagement to Maxx Morando

<p>Dick Van Dyke, aged 98, on his way to collect a Daytime Emmy in Los Angeles in June 2024</p>

Feature

The magic of Dick Van Dyke: How the 99-year-old Mary Poppins star became Hollywood’s most beloved elder statesman

<p>Schoenaerts has been sentenced to six months in prison following driving offenses</p>

Supergirl actor Matthias Schoenaerts sentenced to six months in prison

<p>Meghan Markle’s father Thomas Markle is in the intensive care unit at the hospital after he had emergency surgery</p>

News

Meghan Markle’s estranged father Thomas in intensive care following emergency surgery

<p>Adam Sandler and George Clooney in ‘Jay Kelly’</p>

Review

George Clooney is perfect as an ageing star in the wistful Jay Kelly

<p>Guitarist, songwriter and record producer Steve Cropper has died at the age of 84</p>

News

Songwriting legend and guitarist Steve Cropper dies aged 84

Steve Cropper co-wrote classic songs such as ‘(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay’ and ‘In the Midnight Hour’

<p>Police say there is ‘no evidence’ that Tara Reid was drugged in a hotel bar in Chicago</p>

News

‘No evidence’ that Tara Reid was drugged at hotel, police say

<p>Law enforcement officers respond near a home where a man shot at officers and a decomposed body was later found in Stamford, Conn., Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. (Tyler Sizemore/Hearst Connecticut Media via AP)</p>

Crime

Police find decomposed body and pipe bombs after standoff with man who shot at officers

<p>Tesla swerves into oncoming traffic</p>

Tesla swerves into oncoming traffic causing dump truck to crash into senior living facility

<p>Yuval Raphael performed for Israel at last year’s competition</p>

WORLD

Multiple countries boycott Eurovision after Israel allowed to compete next year

<p>A swatch of ‘Cloud Dancer’</p>

Pantone reveals its Colour of the Year. Here’s how to wear it

<p>A hypnic jerk or sleep start. It is often accompanied by a sensation of falling or tripping over</p>

Health

Sleep experts explain the sudden jerk you experience while dozing off

<p>An emotionally supportive marriage may protect against obesity, study finds (stock image)</p>

Scientists find new link between obesity risk and the quality of your marriage

Product Reviews

<p>The new smart ring is lighter, sleeker and more comfortable to wear</p>

Oura ring 4 review: The wearable has taken my wellbeing to new heights

<p>From single-serve machines to drip coffee makers, I’ve tried and tested the lot</p>

Best coffee makers for 2025, tried and tested

<p>These are the supplements that longevity experts take themselves </p>

The best NAD supplements for 2025, recommended by experts

<p>I've spotted big savings on brands like Kate Somerville and Laura Mercier</p>

I’ve found the best beauty deals in Amazon’s Cyber Monday sale

Culture

LiveNews

I’m a Celeb 2025 live: Viewers left stunned by fifth elimination

<p>Ryan Moloney, Mack Horton, Emily Seebohm, Brad Hodge, Jessika Power, Axle Whitehead, Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Graeme Swann, Dani Dyer, Jack Joseph, Cole Anderson-James, Toby Olubi, Gabby Allen and Ben Cohen appear in the new series of Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins</p>

Love Island winner among new Celebrity SAS series contestants

<p>Joseph Fiennes will star as Gareth Southgate in the new BBC series</p>

Joseph Fiennes to star as Gareth Southgate in Dear England BBC series

<p>Fletcher wrote the music and lyrics for the new Paddington musical</p>

McFly star to perform with Paddington Bear on Strictly this weekend

<p>Halle Berry slammed Governor Gavin Newsom over his menopause bill veto at the New York Times’ DealBook conference</p>

Halle Berry slams Gavin Newsom for ‘overlooking women’ in fiery speech

Adrian Chiles shares skin cancer diagnosis after biopsy

Lifestyle

<p>Before widespread availability of the vaccine, transmission from mothers to babies during childbirth was the most common route of infection</p>

Health & Families

Why newborns get hepatitis B vaccines and everything to know about HBV

<p>Kris Jenner made fun of her viral facelift on ‘The Kardashians’</p>

Kris Jenner says her nose is ‘only’ real thing on her face

<p>A dog wearing clothes walks on a snowy day in Beijing on December 14, 2023</p>

How do you know when it’s too cold to walk your dog?

<p>Versace issued a statement, saying, ‘We would like to sincerely thank Dario for his outstanding contribution’</p>

Versace’s Dario Vitale exits brand days after Prada acquisition

<p>Current research indicates that heavy short-form video use may harm the brain, but more studies are needed to understand who is most at risk, how long the effects last and why</p>

Health & Families

Experts weigh in: You’re definitely giving yourself brain rot

<p>National Cookie Day falls December 4</p>

National Cookie Day 2025: Where to find the best freebies and deals

<p>Skin cancer </p>

Health & Families

The skin cancer symptoms to look out for that aren’t moles

<p>One in nine adults worldwide has diabetes</p>

Health & Families

The common diabetes symptoms that are frequently overlooked

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Cold Plasma Plus+ Advanced Hydrating Complex is multi-tasking skincare

Only at iHerb: The exclusive California Gold Nutrition NMN

Macy’s has Christmas covered, from jewelry and beauty to home buys

Latest videos

Kate Winslet hopes ‘Goodbye June’ sparks honest grief conversations

<p>MH370: Former pilot shares theory of what really happened to missing flight.</p>

Former pilot’s MH370 theory of what really happened to missing flight

Sabrina Carpenter and White House clash over ICE video music

<p>The Princess of Wales in Queen Victoria’s tiara at the German state banquet (Aaron Chown/PA)</p>

Kate steals show in glittering gown and tiara at state banquet

Travel

<p>The UK is packed with great cities</p>

Skip London for one of these 10 great British cities

<p>The new JetBlue routes cement the New York-based carrier as the island’s largest airline</p>

JetBlue to launch five new routes to Puerto Rico with fares from $99

<p>Lounge around the outdoor pool at the Four Seasons Hotel Ritz Lisbon </p>

I felt like I was in The White Lotus at this Lisbon hotel

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